Can employers require coronavirus vaccines? Itâs not clear yet.
Because all three COVID-19 vaccines were approved on an emergency basis, experts say itâs hard to say whether employers can mandate them right now.
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The law is unsettled on whether workplaces can require employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, experts say. Part of the uncertainty has to do with the fact that the three vaccines now in circulation were approved on an emergency basis and have not been fully okayed. [ Times (2001) ]
Updated Mar. 15
As companies start thinking about a possible return to their pre-coronavirus work spaces, a question arises: Can they require their employees to be vaccinated?
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“So I’m going, ‘What? I didn’t do anything wrong,’ ” Headley recalled.
Far from delivering negative news, the phone call revealed that Headley had been named one of 20 winners of the Florida Bar’s Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award. The Lakeland lawyer is the recipient for Judicial Circuit 10, which includes Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties.
For about 16 years, Headley has devoted untold hours at no charge to helping fellow veterans with such tasks as obtaining military records, verifying service-related disabilities and applying for benefits through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Headley, 49, said he hadn’t previously heard of the Tobias Simon Award. He and lawyers from the state’s 19 other judicial circuits were honored in a virtual ceremony Jan. 28.
Students Punished for âVulgarâ Social Media Posts Are Fighting Back
A lawsuit against the University of Tennessee questions when schools can discipline students because of their online speech.
The University of Tennessee said it would expel Kimberly Diei for Instagram and Twitter posts it deemed inappropriate. Credit.Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times
Feb. 5, 2021
To Kimberly Diei, a pharmacy graduate student at the University of Tennessee, her posts on Twitter and Instagram were well within the bounds of propriety. She was just having fun. âSex positive,â she called them.
Posting under a pseudonym, kimmykasi, she exposed her cleavage in a tight dress and stuck out her tongue. In homage to the rapper Cardi B, one of her idols, she made up some raunchy rap lyrics. By this week, she had gained more than 19,500 Instagram followers and 2,000 on Twitter.